Federal Circuit Says Open Source License Conditions are Enforceable as Copyright Condition (New Media and Technology)

Posted Aug 13, 2008 23:54 UTC (Wed) by rickmoen (subscriber, #6943) [Link] (2 responses)

Indeed.  That reasoning should have fairly broad applicability, not least because this ruling
comes from a three-judge panel at the  the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in
Washington (one rung below the US Supreme Court).  

The panel remanded the case back to the Circuit Court in San Francisco for further trial of
Jacobsen's claims for equitable relief (an injunction), which he'll very likely now get.

Rick Moen
rick@linuxmafia.com

Infringement and the US Customs Service

Posted Aug 14, 2008 17:21 UTC (Thu) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625) [Link] (1 responses)

Now that a court has ruled that copying without license compliance is infringement, copyleft developers will be able to use the US Customs Service to seize infringing embedded devices at the port of entry. There's an incentive to come into compliance for you.

Infringement and the US Customs Service

Posted Aug 14, 2008 18:07 UTC (Thu) by rickmoen (subscriber, #6943) [Link]

(/me is awestruck at dmarti's bureaucracy-hacking skilz.)